On the outskirts of Tokyo, a high school student accused of a crime made with the best of intentions exits a train, unknowing of the role of Trickster that awaits her...
Wait, her? Yep. It was really quite shocking, given how Yukiko Amagi was a model student until then.
Fall With the Petals
is a Persona 5 fanfic by Boyd the Reaver, wherein Yukiko and Chie were founding members of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, with Ren/Akira (or Shinobu, in the author's other fics) being composited with Yukiko. Many changes (and lesbian couples) ensue.
While the original story was deleted, Boyd has posted a rewrite called Rising Phoenix, which incoporates content from Persona 5 Royal. It can be found here. As of October 2022, Rising Phoenix has been discontinued due to the author deleting his account, though the fic still remains on Archive of Our Own.
This Fanfic shows examples of:
- Action Girl: Even more so than in Persona 4, as both Yukiko and Chie need to execute some tough acrobatics to be Phantom Thieves.
- A-Cup Angst: See Adaptational Curves. Yukiko's interpreted by the author for being quite stacked, a trait that Chie's very much lacking and envious over.Chie: "Well, it could be worse. You could be an ironing board like yours truly…”
- Adaptational Badass: Yukiko and Chie are both more competent here than in canon, due to being Phantom Thieves on top of being Persona-users.
- Adaptational Curves: Yukiko's interpreted with... generous endowments. Chie's much less lucky.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Haru is at least hinted at from Makoto's first appearance.
- Adaptational Nationality: Downplayed with Ann. Her father is still an American, but he's also a Danish-American too. This leads to Ryuji confusing her heritage with a pastry of the same name in a chatroom:Ry-yee-ji: danish?
Ry-yee-ji: isnt it, like, that pastry
Ry-yee-ji: OH MY GOD ARE YOU PART PASTRY ANN
DanishWeeaboo: no stupid, my father was an american of pure danish descent - Adaptational Nice Guy:
- Because Yukiko was a model student, Sojiro lets the Jerkass facade down earlier around her.
- Apparently, Takeshi was a dear friend to Chie unlike in canon, who was kind of a coward and a former friend. Unfortunately, Takeshi joining the male's volleyball team helped push him to suicide at the hands of Kamoshida's abuse, making things very personal for Chie.
- Adaptational Sexuality: While Yukiko/Chie, Ann/Shiho and Haru/Makoto are all possessing tons of
Les Yay in their canon appearances, here they're outright confirmed to be couples. Ann and Shiho become an official couple around Chapter 23 while Haru/Makoto are apparently established in the canon. - Adaptational Villainy:
- Kamoshida was never a nice guy, but he's debatably even worse here than he is in canon. He's explicitly shown to be a sexual predator unlike in the canon, having a whole shrine in his Palace dedicated to all the women he's raped. When confronted on the matter, he shows no repentance for his actions and gleefully admits that he does what he does because he enjoys it.
- Similarly, Principal Kobayakawa was never a good person, but he outright threatens Haru with exposure of her sexuality if Makoto doesn't agree to his scheme to discover the Phantom Thieves.
- Age Lift: Due to the premise of Persona 4 characters going through the events of Persona 5, Yukiko and Chie are aged down from being born in 1994 to 1999.
- Author Appeal:
- Many of the pairings listed are ones the author ships in his other works, most notably Yukiko/Chie, Haru/Makoto and Ann/Shiho.
- From what's described in the fanfic, Yukiko's interpreted with a generous bust, one that Chie is more than a little envious over.
- The author is quite obviously a huge fan of yuri, with 75 percent of the requited couples being lesbians. The improbability of this is even acknowledged in the tags.
- Badass Adorable: Yukiko and Chie, of course!
- Beware the Nice Ones: Yukiko, much like in canon. She's a very nice and polite young lady, but she can be vicious when angered. Special props goes to her admitting nothing will be lost if a failed Heist kills Kamoshida, a matter that everyone else is concerned with.
- Chie's also just as nice as Yukiko, but she's just as applicable with this trope as is her best friend. She holds a personal vendetta against Kamoshida for killing Takeshi, whom was actually a faithful friend in this timeline.
- Out of all of the Phantom Thieves after Kamoshida's change of heart, Ann was the only one who felt no sympathy towards Good!Kamoshida, outright says that death was too easy for him. Then again, after what happened to Shiho, that level of coldness is more than a little justified.
- Break the Cutie: Shiho... doesn't take being raped well. At all. Even after all is said and done, she's still clearly traumatized from the event and very much prefers not to talk about it.
- Butterfly of Doom: The fact that Yukiko and Chie are female greatly changes the dynamic with the game's events, and Naoto being a co-investigator with Akechi changes a bit more.
- Darker and Edgier: Downplayed. Kamoshida is even more of a Hate Sink here, having driven a friend of Chie's to suicide and admitting what he does is rape - without feeling he should be guilty at all even then.
- Drives Like Crazy: Yukiko + Morganamobile = Earthquake Simulation In Mementos.
- Entitled Bastard: Kamoshida feels his fame gives him the right to do anything he wants within the bounds of the school.
- I Know Mortal Kombat: Subverted. Yukiko knows driving... from Crazy Taxi.After two seconds of processing this information, Dragon, Skull and Panther hastily buckled their seatbelts and began praying to whatever kami was above.
- In Spite of a Nail: Yukiko and Chie have the same Personas as in Persona 4, though Konohana Sakuya is of the Fool Arcana here.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again:
- A rare tragic example. Shiho's rape was extremely traumatic for the poor girl, and she doesn't like to acknowledge that the incident ever happened.
- On a lighter note, the Phantom Thieves have agreed to never bring up the Mara Shadow.
- Role Swap AU: A Persona 5 retelling with Yukiko Amagi in the role of Joker and Chie Satonaka along for the ride.
- Sexy Scandinavian: Apparently, Ann's father was a Danish-American.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Yukiko again. She's still a very polite lady as in canon, but she takes to being a Phantom Thief like a fish takes to water. Not to mention she can become surprisingly cold, outright saying in Chapter 13 nothing will be lost if a botched Heist kills Kamoshida. And given what he's done, that's a very justifiable reaction.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Yukiko.
